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As mentioned earlier, the column headers in the SAM importer should be auto-recognized, since there can be hundreds of them. Also, it should be possible to choose between different sheet layouts, the most common one being: samples in rows, different measurements (called Measurement Types) in the columns.

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Recognition of the headers is fine, but if a Measurement Type is not already in the database, you cannot import it without importing the Measurement Type first. This is a little tedious as well. Maybe we should add on-the-fly adding of new MeasurementTypes. It would be even fancier if SAM knows how to connect to some public compound databases and search there if it can identify what you are importing (HMDB, DrugBank etc.)

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Recognition of the headers is fine, but if a Measurement Type is not already in the database, you cannot import it without importing the Measurement Type first. This is a little tedious as well. Maybe we should add on-the-fly adding of new Measurement Types. It would be even fancier if SAM knows how to connect to some public compound databases and search there if it can identify what you are importing (HMDB, Drug Bank etc.)